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MILTON, Ga. — On Oct. 3 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Crabapple Fest will return to downtown Milton for a day of family-friendly fun. The city of Milton invites residents to shop for items and grab refreshments or snacks. Crabapple Road will be transformed into a market lined with more than 100 vendors featuring various handmade items. The festival stretches along Crabapple Road from the roundabout at Crabapple Road and Heritage Walk to the intersection of Birmingham Highway and Broadwell Road. Activities will take place in the Crabapple Market area, including The Green and the City Hall parking lot.

By ANNABELLE REITER annabelle@appenmedia.com MILTON, Ga. — In recent weeks, four area high school lacrosse players from Milton, West Forsyth and Wesleyan have been announced as members of a national team. Team USA’s U17 and U19 squads will be hosting Canada and the Haudenosaunee Nationals Sept. 25-27 at the USA Lacrosse headquarters in Sparks, Maryland, for the Brogden Cup. Several weeks later, the teams will compete again in Oshawa, Ontario, for the second annual Rivalry Challenge against Canada Oct. 9-11. The Brogden Cup originated in 1988, named after Olympic goalie Mac Brogden, a Johns Hopkins alumnus who represented Team USA in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. Lacrosse is set to return to the Olympics, and to Los Angeles 96 years later, and Team USA has recently selected their players.

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Appen Media Group, which publishes seven newspapers and operates numerous digital news properties in metro Atlanta, has sued the state of Georgia, arguing that rules set by corrections officials governing media access to executions violate the First Amendment. The family-owned media group is asking a federal court to intervene before the state’s next scheduled execution Sept. 16. The lawsuit, filed Sept. 2 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, names Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Tyrone Oliver, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison Warden Jason Beasley and state Attorney General Chris Carr as defendants. Each defendant was sued in their official capacity. The media group is represented by the ACLU Foundation of Georgia and Atlanta attorney Gerald Weber. Alongside the complaint, the media group filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and expedited preliminary injunction, asking the court to bar the state from carrying out its Sept. 16 execution of Stacey Ian Humphreys under the current media access rules unless officials first expand what media representatives are allowed to see and hear. The media group has covered the convicted double-murderer’s case since November 2003, when he shot and killed two female real estate agents at a Powder Springs business. Humphreys was convicted of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, armed robbery and kidnapping with bodily injury in 2007. A jury unanimously recommended the death penalty, and he was sentenced to death that same year. The U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeal in October 2025, and a stay of execution was lifted in March. The 53-year-

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old is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Sept. 16. A hearing date on the temporary restraining order motion has not yet been set. The lawsuit challenges the state’s lethal injection procedures, which govern how executions are carried out at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Butts County. Under those procedures, the state Department of Corrections allows only five media representatives — one from the Associated Press, two from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters and two from the Georgia Press Association — to observe any part of an execution. The AP is a cooperative news agency with an Atlanta hub, while the broadcasters association is a membership organization for Georgia-based radio and TV news outlets. The press association is the same but for the state’s newspapers. During the execution process, the AP journalist and the four journalists from the two associations are required to relay what they witness to other news outlets waiting in a separate media staging area. According to the complaint, the state

gives media no visual or auditory access at all to several steps that happen in the two hours before an execution, including delivery of the lethal injection drugs, equipment checks and preparation of the syringes. A single “media monitor” — who, the complaint says, is often someone with no prior experience witnessing an execution — is allowed to watch, without audio, as the condemned prisoner is secured to a gurney and connected to an IV line. The complaint calls that step “often the most fraught segment of an execution by lethal injection,” citing recent botched IV insertions during executions in Tennessee, Arizona, Idaho and Alabama. The complaint also mentions cases in Georgia where, during a 2001 and 2007 execution, officials struggled to establish IV access. The lawsuit also says media witnesses are given no audio or visual access to the chemical room, where the lethal drugs are injected through tubing that runs through a wall into the execution chamber, and that a microphone in the execution chamber itself is turned on only for the prisoner’s final statement and the state’s official pronouncement of death.

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Yorio said he felt the south tower shake. He was tossed through the air, his ears filled with what he described as the “horrible grinding noise” of metal on metal. Pieces of the 110-story building, covered in flames, fell to the ground. “I’m like, ‘Oh, my God,’” Yorio said. “I waited. I shouldn’t have stayed.” The time was 9:03 a.m., and United Airlines Flight 175 — a Boeing 767-200 with 65 occupants, including five hijackers — had just been flown into the building’s facade between floors 77 and 85. Yorio ran to the stairwell along with others from his floor. Despite the chaos, their evacuation, he said, was orderly and silent. “We just kept moving,” Yorio said. “I remember saying to myself, ‘Okay, we’re not going to start counting [down] until the 40th floor.’” It took about 30 minutes for him to escape the tower. He walked about five blocks to a church, where he called his family, and was huddled in the church’s kitchen with his fellow survivors, sipping soup and water, when the first tower fell. “All of a sudden, [I heard] this absolute roar,” Yorio said. “Some of the people inside [started] screaming. And then outside you could

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Medical science can sometimes help us step back in time and understand the past as though centuries no longer separate us. Homer's The Odyssey has received renewed attention through Christopher Nolan's recent film adaptation, providing an opportunity to revisit medicine in Homer's world. By understanding the effects of two plants— nightshade and snowdrops—modern pharmacology sheds light on one of the epic's most perplexing episodes: the transformation of Odysseus's men into swine. Christopher Nolan's adaptation includes the startling scene in which the sorceress Circe turns Odysseus's men into pigs. In Homer's original epic, Circe poisons the soldiers' drink. The god Hermes gives Odysseus an antidote in the form of a plant called Moly, described as having a black root and a white flower. Odysseus consumes the herb, drinks Circe's poisoned brew without harm, then confronts Circe and rescues his men. To modern audiences, Circe's potion seems fantastical. But to ancient listeners familiar with local plants and traditional healing, it may have suggested something far more recognizable. One influential interpretation proposes that Circe's potion was inspired by poisonous plants of the nightshade family, which profoundly affect the nervous system. Normally, the body shifts between "rest and digest" and "fight or flight" through the action of acetylcholine. Nightshade blocks acetylcholine, pushing the nervous system toward "fight or flight." In larger doses, the consequences become severe. Poisoning by nightshade produces the classic symptoms: "blind as a bat, mad as a hatter, red as a beet, hot as a hare, dry as a bone." Victims may suffer blurred vision, impaired sweating, confusion, hallucinations, and delusions. Nightshade is among history's most famous poisons, appearing in Homer, Shakespeare, and countless ancient texts. Homer's audience would likely have recognized its effects. Nightshade could leave Odysseus's men as helpless as pigs—or even convince them they were pigs.

Medical historians have suggested that Moly may have been the snowdrop (Galanthus), which has a white flower, dark roots when freshly dug up, and which contains galantamine, a compound that increases acePROVIDED tylcholine activity and largely counteracts the effects of nightshade. But snowdrops are not harmless. In excessive doses, they can slow the heart, weaken breathing, lower blood pressure, and become poisonous themselves. Only a master herbalist or a hero with Hermes as his guide could have chosen the proper balance. For ancient audiences, the story likely gained another layer of suspense now largely lost on us. They may have recognized that Moly itself was dangerous. Once Odysseus swallowed it, the clock began ticking. Odysseus had to drink Circe’s nightshade before the snowdrop killed him. The antidote became the poison, and the poison became the antidote. When Odysseus consumed Moly, ancient listeners may have experienced the same suspense we feel watching heroes race to obtain an antidote in modern films. When Odysseus swallowed one poison in preparation for another, ancient listeners, too, were likely on the edge of their seats. Almost any substance can be a medicine at one dose and a poison at another. That paradox—and the knowledge that Hermes' "gift" was both antidote and toxin—deepens our understanding of the peril Odysseus faced. Between Circe and Hermes, nightshade and snowdrops, he navigates a medicinal Scylla and Charybdis in which each plant is both poison and cure. A knowledge of ancient herbal medicine and modern pharmacology makes sense of a scene of soldiers turned into pigs and helps us appreciate a moment of tremendous danger and suspense for our great ancient hero Odysseus.

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Studying the fine art of getting lost Ever been lost? Well, I have, but only a little bit. You see, if you have my level of outdoor knowledge, you know that you’re never really lost. You’re only temporarily STEVE HUDSON spatially confused. Columnist Think about it. Say you’re out in the woods somewhere, and all of a sudden you realize that you don’t really know where you are. Are you lost? Only a layman would say “yes.” Those with my level of navigational acumen, however, don’t even bat an eye at that sort of thing. We realize that no matter where we are, if we head east, we’ll eventually reach the Atlantic Ocean. There, all we have to do is turn right, or maybe left, and make our way to Savannah. Then it’s simply a matter of moseying over to Interstate 95. From there, we can go just about anywhere we want. So ... lost? Never! Lost is for amateurs. Still, occasional temporary displacement is always a possibility. Sometimes that kind of displacement happens because I’m distracted a little by something important, perhaps a life-or -death matter involving armadillos or cows. But can you believe that some would say that’s just a polite way of saying I’m not paying attention? I recall one day in west Georgia. We’d been exploring a little country road that turned right off a much bigger highway. Our GPS map hinted at several promising creek crossings along the stretch of road ahead. Would one of them be a good fishing spot? Hope springs eternal when you’re looking for fishing places. Maybe so. But just how much can you trust GPS? It is, after all, just a device. It’s mere technology. How much does technology really know anyway? It doesn’t hold a candle to highly tuned, ninja-class cross-country navigation skills. Such skills are honed only after years of grass-roots exploration. Such abilities are polished only after countless outings in which one (me) masters the subtleties of navigating by stars, wind and the ways that hawks and buzzards turn as they drift through the sky. Yeah, that sort of thing is rare

and beautiful to behold. And when the grid collapses under the weight of civilization, when the GPS isn’t GPSing anymore, then me and my one-with-the-outside-world mind will be relevant! But I digress, and so back to our search for fishing spots. As it was turning out, success was proving elusive. The crossings were all overgrown and inaccessible — that is, all but one. Ahhh. The non-overgrown one was clearly the best of the batch. There was a wide place to pull off and park. There was a nice little foot trail leading down from the road to the water. There was also a beautiful pool and a gravelly patch of creek bank that sang that siren song no angler can ignore. It was just the place for a little fly-fishing, and we were ready. But then I spotted movement in the bushes nearby. Squinting, I made out shapes ... moving shapes ... animated bovine shapes ... and they were looking our way. Uh-oh. It was an angler’s worst nightmare. It appeared that this particular spot was guarded by cows. Putting my outdoors ninja skills in high gear, I immediately divined that these were not regular cows. Oh no. Instead, they were big, mean, killer cows, and one in particular (the biggest and meanest of them all) was giving us the eye. “Must be the supreme commander,” I muttered, for it definitely had that braggadocious barky look that only a Cow in Chief can have. If you’ve ever seen one, you know exactly what I mean. And you probably have. Would the fishing be worth the risk? Now I may not be the sharpest hook in the tackle box, but I do know that killer cows are not to be trifled with. How I know that is another story for another day, but let’s just say I decided it was time to turn around and head home. I turned back to the car, still watched by those cows. No doubt they were calculating whether to charge, much as their distant cousins the lions and tigers might do after spotting a particularly tasty-looking afternoon snack. Cows are devious that way, too, you know, and it appeared to my trained eyes that their plans were moving right along.

But just how much can you trust GPS? It is, after all, just a device. It’s mere technology. How much does technology really know anyway? Fortunately, being the trained woodsman that I am, I saw right through their plotting. Realizing that our very survival was at stake and that time was certainly of the essence, I picked up the pace and was soon safely back in the car. I turned around in a convenient farm road. Then we headed on down the road, none the worse for the experience and leaving the cows, disappointed, far behind. After a little bit we came again to the main highway, where I confidently turned right. Yeah, I turned right. If you’re geographically attuned like I usually am, you’ll realize that “right” was not the way to turn to head back the way we came. Had I turned “left,” which is what I should have done, we’d have been pointed back toward home. But I was no doubt distracted by our close call. So I accidentally turned the other way. You see how that could happen, of course. Unfortunately, the error in my ways was not immediately apparent. One stretch of rural highway looks pretty much like the next stretch, at least for a little while. Soon, though, we started seeing things we had not seen on the way in. On the left there was a bright red house. On the right was a country store. Just past it was a big ol’ pasture and a herd of (you guessed it) more cows — were they looking our way? — and just beyond that there was a hand-lettered sign, done up in shaky letters and bloodred paint, proclaiming that the end was near if one wasn’t careful. We hadn’t seen any of that before. Clearly, we were headed in an

unexplored direction, going toward somewhere at 65 mph. But what would that somewhere turn out to be? My brain immediately began a careful analysis of just exactly what all of this might mean. “What do you think it means?” I asked. “I think,” my wife said, “that it means we may be lost.” Lost? “Lost?” I said. “How could we be lost? One is never lost if one knows where one is, and I know that we are here!” We rode on a little longer. “But where is here?” I added at last. “Alabama,” she said. “Alabama?” “Uh-huh. We just crossed the state line.” Alabama, huh? Well, being the trained whole-earth navigator that I am, I’m sure I would have seen that. Only I’d been distracted again by yet a third battalion of cows, those ones over there (that’s a little bit of colloquial dialect-type stuff, included here to add local color). They were definitely looking our way, I saw. It dawned on me, too, that they were Alabama cows. Alabama cows, among all the cows in all of creation, are especially not to be trifled with, and that realization probably distracted me even more. So you can understand how I missed a little thing like crossing over into a whole other state. That’s all it was. Uh-huh. But when it’s time, it’s time. So I found another country road and turned around again (the correct way this time), and eventually we did get home. You know, it’s funny how some things just become legend. That story — which I have recounted here as it happened, mostly, more or less — is one of them. It’s a tale still told at family gatherings, at campgrounds, at baby showers and birthday parties and even, once, in the Walmart checkout line. In fact, it’s told pretty much anywhere such stories are told and everywhere there’s even the faintest chance of encountering cows. It’s kind of nice to be the stuff of legends. Meanwhile, I have been learning to rely more fully on GPS. I guess it’s here to stay. How the times have changed!

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PRESERVING THE PAST

North Point Mall’s hidden artwork – and the story it tells When North Point Mall opened in 1993, a large store was named in honor of Rich's, a beloved Atlanta department store chain founded in 1867 as a dry goods store by Hungarian-born imBOB MEYERS migrant Morris Rich Columnist (1847-1928). His flagship store had closed two years earlier, in 1991. The iconic Rich's store occupied two blocks in Downtown Atlanta and operated from 1924 until its shutdown. The Alpharetta store at North Point Mall was named Rich's by its owner, Federated Department Stores, which had acquired the Rich's chain in 1976. In 1994 Federated acquired Macy's, one of the country's oldest department stores, founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy (18221877). Thus, Rich's and Macy's became sister companies under one owner, although they continued to operate independently. Today's column tells the stories of Rich's and Macy's at North Point and the unique feature that sets both stores apart from other stores. Rich's was the first business to open in North Point Mall, drawing huge crowds on July 12, 1993, three months before the formal mall opening on Oct. 20, and it was always a highlight. Atlantans were still upset at the demise of their beloved Downtown Atlanta Rich's, and Federated was determined to create a special shopping experience. Russell Stravitz, chairman and chief executive officer of Rich's, told The Atlanta Journal, "The demographics of the population of this region indicate that the consumer is interested in upscale merchandise and wants a wide selection." For Federated, the Rich's acquisition was a major entry point into the South, because at that time Rich's consisted of 11 major department stores, three boutiques and 11 Richway discount stores in Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina. Details in the interior and exterior of the Alpharetta Rich's were beautifully elaborate, an homage to the memory of the original store. Of special note to shoppers and historians, even today, is a series of eight commemorative plaques, or relief panels, on the exterior of Macy's that tell the Rich's story. In 2003, Federated announced that Rich's and several other regional chains would be merged into a single

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One of eight historic relief panels at Macy’s Department Store at North Point Mall that were installed during the construction of North Point Mall. The panels were installed in Rich’s which opened in 1993 as one of the original anchor stores in the mall. In 2005 the Rich’s name was retired and the store became Macy’s. Each panel illustrates an activity important to Rich’s history and each is represented by a specific year and theme, in this case 1900 and fashion Macy's division because Macy's had become Federated's dominant flagship identity. The names of all Rich's stores were changed to Rich's-Macy's for a transitional period. In 2005, all remaining Rich's stores were renamed Macy's, and the Rich's name was fully retired after 138 years. The change was part of Federated's national strategy to dispense with regional names. Separate advertising, merchandising systems and marketing campaigns for each regional name were expensive and inefficient. Federated decided to keep the panels in place. While there has been some debate about the origin of the exterior panels on the Macy's store in Alpharetta, the consensus is that they were created new for the opening of Rich's North Point store. Rich's used precast con-

crete panels. Salvaging panels from another building would have required redesigning portions of the building's facade, and there is no evidence that Rich's did that. When the Alpharetta store began its conversion to Macy's in 2003 as part of Federated's companywide consolidation, Macy's inherited the building and its panels. The panels were most likely cast off-site and installed with cranes. Offsite casting allows for more intricate bas-relief patterns than on-site casting, which produces more pronounced forms. Each panel has a shopping bag with the year written on it, identifying an important period in Rich's history. Here is a summary of each panel: — 1867. Retail era: Post-Civil War. Theme: Early specialty retail,

shoes and dry good. Description: Four figures in mid-19th century attire, including a woman in bridal attire. One young girl holds a shopping bag labeled M. Rich and Bros 1867, the year Rich’s was founded. — 1900. Theme: Fashion. Description: Two women beside a mirror, one adjusting the other’s floor length dress. A shopping bag with the year labeled M. Rich and Bros Co rests on a seat. — 1927. Era: Roaring Twenties. Theme: Retail service, shoe fitting, modern merchandising. Description: A seated women tries on shoes while a clerk kneels to assist. A standing woman holds the same dated Rich’s shopping bag. — 1944. Retail era: World War 11. Theme Toys, holiday retail. Description: Four children play with dolls, teddy bears and toy soldiers. A newly designed bag reads RICHS 1944. — 1954. Retail era: Mid-century. Theme: Personal service, fashion, hats. Description: A woman tries on a hat before a mirror. A clerk stands behind a counter and a young girl holds a hat, presumably for her mother. The bag still says Rich’s but it has a new design. — 1965. Retail era: Mid-century. Theme: Cosmetics, personal service, modern retail counters. Description: A seated woman with a mirror interacts with a clerk at the counter displaying cosmetics. The bag has a new design. — 1970. Tailoring men’s fashion. Retail era: Post war. Description: A tailor adjusts a suit on a customer standing on a platform. Theme: Men’s apparel, tailoring. Interpretation: The growth of men’s fashion, custom tailoring and the growth of department store men’s apparel sections. —1993. Retail era: North Point Mall opening. Theme: housewares, domestic goods. Description: a clerk shows a young couple a sample of dishes. The bag still says Rich’s since the name did not change to Macy’s until 2005. The fate of the panels remains unknown as discussions continue about the mall's future. Let us hope that regardless of the mall's future, the unique and very historic panels will be preserved for the benefit of this and future generations. They are part of Alpharetta's 1990s suburban identity. Thanks to reader Dianna Smeal for suggesting the topic. You can email Bob at bobmey@ bellsouth.net. To learn more about the Milton Historical Society, go to miltonhistoricalsociety-georgia.org.

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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF FULTON COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA IN THE MATTER OF: 2026 TAX DIGEST FOR THE CITY OF ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA, 2026 TAX DIGEST FOR THE CITY OF MILTON, GEORGIA, AND 2026 TAX DIGEST FOR THE CITY OF ROSWELL, GEORGIA CIVIL ACTION 26CV012253 PETITION FOR AN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE IMMEDIATE AND TEMPORARY COLLECTION OF TAXES IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 48-5-310, that a hearing shall be held on the 11th day of September 2026 at 4:00 o’clock p.m. in Courtroom 7e of the Superior Court of Fulton County, before the Honorable Shukura L. Ingram to address the Cities of Alpharetta, Milton, and Roswell’s (the “Cities”) Petition for an Order Authorizing the Immediate and Temporary Collection of Taxes, wherein all intervening parties will show cause as to why this Court should not issue an order allowing for the immediate and temporary collection of taxes as requested by the Cities and as prayed for in said Petition. Pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 48-5-310(a)(1)(B), (C), (a)(2), and (j), the Cities of Alpharetta, Milton, and Roswell, Georgia (collectively, the “Cities”), petition this Court for an order authorizing the immediate and temporary collection of ad valorem taxes for tax year 2026 and show the Court as follows: Petition For the Immediate and Temporary Collection of Taxes, Generally 1. O.C.G.A. § 48-5-310(a)(1)(B), (a)(1)(C), (a)(2), and (j), provide that any municipality may petition the superior court of the county in which the municipality is located for an order authorizing the immediate and temporary collection of taxes. 2. Specifically, O.C.G.A. 48-5-310(b)(1) provides that any municipality may petition the court for a temporary tax collection order when it appears that, unless the court authorizes the immediate, temporary collection of the taxes, the municipality will not be able to either: (A) Pay the municipality’s debts as they mature; (B) Pay appropriate salaries of employees, other government officials, and other persons entitled to receive either compensation by or funds from the municipality as provided by law; (C) Maintain an orderly and normal function of municipal business and governmental affairs; (D) Maintain an adequate, proper, or desirable credit rating either to maintain or affect existing or future interest rates on bonded indebtedness or indebtedness on loans incurred or obligated by the municipal governing authority; or (E) Avoid by practical means the suffering of immediate and irreparable injury, loss, damage, or any other significant matter. 3. Pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 48-5-310(c), after the filing of the petition, the Court shall (A) Set a time and date for a hearing on the petition; (B) The hearing shall be held not less than ten days from the date of the filing of the petition; (C) The court shall direct that the municipal governing authority have the petition published at least once prior to the hearing in the official newspaper of the county for publication of official notices; (D) The court shall further order that the governing authority post a copy of the petition in a prominent place in the courthouse; and (E) No hearing shall be held on the petition until the petition has been so published and posted. 4. Pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 48-5-310(f), if the relief is granted, the Court’s Order shall establish the basis on which the temporary tax on each parcel of property shall be established and the manner in which the taxes shall be billed, collected, and otherwise received. 5. The basis upon which the temporary taxes may be collected shall be one of the following: (A) Any tax digest for the tax year in question which has been submitted to the Revenue Commissioner but which has been rejected or is otherwise unenforceable; (B) The most recently submitted and approved tax digest as amended to reflect changes in ownership of property; or (C) Any other reasonable method which will do substantial justice to the parties under the exigencies of all the circumstances. O.C.G.A. § 48-5-310(f). 6. Temporary collection is an interim measure to maintain normal governmental operations until the completed tax digest is submitted to and approved by the State Revenue Commissioner. See O.C.G.A. § 48-5-310(g). Once the State Revenue Commissioner certifies the final 2026 digest, the final tax liability for property shall be determined and recalculated on the basis of the final 2026 digest. Id. For example, for each property where the final 2026 digest results in a reduction of tax liability, the excess collections will be refunded. Id. Alternatively, for each property where the final 2026 digest results in an increase of tax liability, the taxes collected under the temporary collection order will be credited to the account for each property so that only the remaining balance shall be due. Id. Parties 7. Alpharetta, Milton, and Roswell (collectively, the “Cities”) are Georgia municipal corporations located entirely within Fulton County, Georgia. 8. Jim Gilvin is the duly elected Mayor of Alpharetta, and Kirk Driskell, Katie Reeves, Douglas J. DeRito, John Hipes, Fergal M. Brady, and Dan Merkel are the duly elected members of the Alpharetta City Council. The Mayor and City Council constitute Alpharetta’s governing authority. 9. Thomas G. Harris is the Director of Finance for the City of Alpharetta. His affidavit is attached as Exhibit 1. 10. Peyton Jamison is the duly elected Mayor of Milton, and Brian Dolan, Carol Cookerly, Juliette Johnson, Doug Hene, Jan Jacobus, and Phil Cramer are the duly elected members of the Milton City Council. The Mayor and City Council constitute Milton’s governing authority. 11. Bernadette Harvill is the Deputy City Manager for the City of Milton. Her affidavit is attached as Exhibit 2. 12. Mary Robichaux is the duly elected Mayor of Roswell, and Sarah Beeson, Allen Sells, Christine Hall, Jennifer Phillippi, Eren Brumley, and Chris Zack are the duly elected members of the Roswell City Council. The Mayor and City Council constitute Roswell’s governing authority. 13. Randy Knighton is the City Administrator for the City of Roswell. His affidavit is attached as Exhibit 3. The Cities Require an Order Authorizing Immediate and Temporary Collection of Taxes 14. Each City is authorized under the Georgia Constitution to levy and collect ad valorem taxes upon taxable property located within its jurisdiction. Ga. Const. art. IX, § IV, ¶ I. 15. Each City directly bills and collects its own municipal ad valorem taxes upon taxable property located within its boundaries. 16. The Cities do not determine the fair market value of property independently for purposes of municipal ad valorem taxation. 17. Instead, O.C.G.A. § 48-5-352(a) requires municipalities to use the fair market value determined for county ad valorem tax purposes. 18. The Fulton County Board of Assessors (“FCBOA”) is responsible for determining the value of taxable property within Fulton County and compiling the assessments and exemptions that comprise the Fulton County tax digest. 19. The FCBOA-generated values are essential to the Cities’ annual tax process. Without a legally usable digest or equivalent valuation information supplied through the statutory process, the Cities cannot establish their millage rates, levy taxes, or collect property taxes. FCBOA has not Completed the 2026 Digest Values 20. O.C.G.A. § 48-5-302 provides that each county board of tax assessors shall complete its revision and assessment of taxpayer returns by July 15 and immediately forward the value information to the Fulton County Tax Commissioner (the “Tax Commissioner”). 21. Pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 48-532.1(b), the Tax Commissioner is responsible for providing the property value information and the information municipalities require in order to establish their millage rates for the year. 22. That process has not occurred for tax year 2026. 23. As of the filing of this Petition, the FCBOA has not completed the assessment of all real and personal property located within Fulton County for tax year 2026 and, therefore, the Tax Commissioner is unable to provide the necessary information to the Cities or to deliver the completed 2026 tax digest to the State Revenue Commissioner for approval. 24. Consequently, the 2026 Fulton County tax digest has not been submitted to or approved by the Revenue Commissioner and presently cannot serve as an enforceable basis for the Cities’ ordinary collection of 2026 ad valorem taxes. 25. The last Fulton County tax digest approved by the Revenue Commissioner is the Fulton County tax digest for tax year 2025. 26. In prior years, the Cities ordinarily received a substantially complete preliminary digest from Fulton County by approximately mid-June. 27. Receipt of that information by mid-June ordinarily enabled the Cities to perform the calculations required by O.C.G.A. §§ 48-5-32 and 48-5-32.1, establish their annual millage rates by approximately mid-August, and complete the other steps necessary for the annual tax process. 28. Under the ordinary schedule, the Fulton County Tax Commissioner

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2026 TAX DIGEST FOR THE CITY OF ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA (CONTINUED) thereafter submitted the completed digest to the Revenue Commissioner in approximately early to mid-September. 29. The Revenue Commissioner ordinarily authorized the digest for collection by approximately mid-October. 30. That schedule permitted the Cities to prepare and issue municipal tax bills so that collection of their annual property-tax revenues was completed or substantially underway beginning in early December. 31. The Cities’ annual budgets are determined with the expectation that budget year property tax revenues will be collected prior to the end of the calendar year. 32. The substantial delay in completion of the 2026 Fulton County digest has disrupted that established schedule. 33. The Cities require receipt of their 2026 ad valorem tax revenues beginning in or about December 2026 to fund ongoing municipal operations and obligations. 34. It is presently unknown when the FCBOA will complete its annual assessment of all real and personal property located within Fulton County for tax year 2026, when the Tax Commissioner will be able to provide the necessary information to the Cities or to deliver the completed 2026 Tax Digest to the State Revenue Commissioner for approval, or when the State Revenue Commissioner will ultimately approve the 2026 tax digest. 35. Without immediate relief under O.C.G.A. § 48-5-310, the Cities face a material risk that they will be unable to timely bill and collect their 2026 property taxes and receive the revenue on which their governmental operations depend. The Statutory Conditions for Temporary Collection Exist 36. On July 20, 2026, the Alpharetta City Council adopted and approved a resolution authorizing the filing of this Petition. A certified copy is attached as Exhibit 4. 37. On July 21, 2026, the Milton City Council adopted and approved a resolution authorizing the filing of this Petition. A certified copy is attached as Exhibit 5. 38. On August 24, 2026, the Roswell City Council adopted and approved a resolution authorizing the filing of this Petition. A certified copy is attached as Exhibit 6. 39. O.C.G.A. § 48-5-310 authorizes a governing authority to seek immediate and temporary collection when, among other circumstances, the current digest has not been approved by the Revenue Commissioner or is otherwise unenforceable or uncollectable by law, and that condition prevents tax collections from being made or enforced. 40. By operation of O.C.G.A. § 48-5-310(j), those procedures apply to municipalities, including the Cities, that use county-determined fair market values as the basis for municipal taxation. 41. As established by the affidavits of Thomas G. Harris, the Director of Finance for the City of Alpharetta (Exhibit 1), Bernadette Harvill, Deputy City Manager for the City of Milton (Exhibit 2), and Randy Knighton, City Administrator for the City of Roswell (Exhibit 3), unless immediate and temporary collection is authorized, the Cities will be unable timely to receive the ad valorem tax revenues necessary to: (1) Pay debts and lawful obligations as they mature; (2) Pay appropriate salaries and other amounts required by law; (3) Maintain the orderly and normal conduct of municipal business and governmental affairs; (4) Maintain adequate and desirable financial and credit conditions, including conditions affecting existing or future bonded indebtedness or other lawful indebtedness; and (5) Avoid immediate and substantial financial injury or loss. 42. The conditions contemplated by O.C.G.A. § 48-5-310(b)(1) therefore exist. 43. The Cities have contemporaneously served the Revenue Commissioner with a copy of this Petition as required by O.C.G.A. § 48-5-310(i). Temporary Collection Will Not Prejudice Taxpayers’ Rights When the Final 2026 Digest Is Completed 44. O.C.G.A. § 48-5-310(g) expressly provides that temporary collection does not affect or limit taxpayers’ rights to adjustments, benefits, refunds, or additional assessments resulting from the final disposition of the tax digest. 45. The temporary taxes collected pursuant to the requested Order will therefore remain subject to all adjustments required by law after the actual 2026 Fulton County digest is completed and becomes enforceable. 46. Georgia appellate authority recognizes that § 48-5-310 contemplates temporary collection followed, where necessary, by additional assessments or refunds after the final digest is determined. Harrington v. Baldwin County Board of Tax Assessors, 214 Ga. App. 178, 178-79, 447 S.E.2d 300 (1994). 47. The temporary collection procedure thus permits the Cities to receive essential 2026 revenues without finally adjudicating any taxpayer’s ultimate 2026 tax liability before the lawful assessment process has been completed. 48. For property under appeal, temporary billing shall remain subject to O.C.G.A. § 48-5-311 and other applicable law. The Cities Require a Temporary Collection Order by the Court 49. On July 17, 2026, Fulton County filed its own petition under O.C.G.A. § 48-5-310, giving rise to Civil Action No. 26CV010167 in this Court. A copy of Fulton County’s petition is attached as Exhibit 7. 50. On August 4, 2026, this Court entered a Final Order Authorizing the Immediate and Temporary Collection of Taxes in that action. A copy is attached as Exhibit 8. 51. The Order permits all Fulton County, Fulton County Schools, and municipalities other than Alpharetta, Milton, and Roswell to immediately and temporarily bill and collect 2026 property taxes using 2025 millage rates and 2026 values determined by the FCBOA. (Exhibit 5, p. 8, ¶ 6.) 52. The August 4 Order expressly excluded Alpharetta, Milton, and Roswell from its operation because each of those Cities directly bills and collects its own municipal taxes. 53. The Court therefore has not previously authorized these Cities to collect their 2026 municipal ad valorem taxes temporarily. 54. Therefore, without relief from this Court, taxes due to the Cities cannot be timely billed and collected, and the Cities will not timely receive their 2026 ad valorem tax revenue. (Exhibit 1, Affidavit of Thomas G. Harris, ¶ 10; Exhibit 2, Affidavit of Bernadette Harvill, ¶ 10; and Exhibit 3, Affidavit of Randy Knighton, ¶ 10.) 55. The Cities therefore require an order authorizing immediate and temporary collection. 56. For the Court’s convenience, the Cities will submit proposed Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and a Final Order Authorizing the Immediate and Temporary Collection of Taxes. Relief Requested WHEREFORE, Petitioners, the City of Alpharetta, the City of Milton, and the City of Roswell, respectfully pray that the Court: (1) Set an expedited hearing on this Petition for a date not less than ten days after the filing date of this Petition; (2) Direct the publication and posting required by O.C.G.A. § 48-5-310(c); (3) Enter an order pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 48-5-310(f) establishing the basis on which the temporary tax on each parcel of property shall be established as the temporary 2026 tax digest for the Cities and the manner in which the taxes shall be billed, collected, and otherwise received; (4) Authorize temporary billing of property under the temporary 2026 tax digest in accordance with O.C.G.A. §§ 48-5-310, 48-5-311, and other applicable law; (5) Retain jurisdiction as provided by O.C.G.A. § 48-5310(h); and (6) Grant such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper. Respectfully submitted this ____ day of _________ 2026. JARRARD & DAVIS, LLP /s/Ken Jarrard Ken Jarrard Georgia Bar No. 389550 John R. Bampfield Georgia Bar No. 341765 Molly Esswein Georgia Bar No. 912457 Attorneys for Alpharetta and Milton 222 Webb Street Cumming, Georgia 30040 678-455-7150 (telephone) kjarrard@jarrard-davis.com rbampfield@jarrard-davis.com messwein@ jarrard-davis.com CITY OF ROSWELL CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE /s/Joe Cusack David Davidson Georgia Bar No. 206527 Joseph M. Cusack Georgia Bar No. 492674 Attorneys for City of Roswell 38 Hill Street Roswell, GA 30075 Phone: (770) 594-6185 ddavidson@roswellgov.com jcusack@roswellgov.com IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF FULTON COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA IN THE MATTER OF: 2026 TAX DIGEST FOR THE CITY OF ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA, 2026 TAX DIGEST FOR THE CITY OF MILTON, GEORGIA, AND 2026 TAX DIGEST FOR THE CITY OF ROSWELL, GEORGIA CIVIL ACTION 26CV012253 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that I have, this 28th day of August 2026, served a true and correct copy of the foregoing PETITION FOR AN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE IMMEDIATE AND TEMPORARY COLLECTION OF TAXES upon the Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Revenue as required by O.C.G.A. § 48-5310(i), and have provided copies to the municipalities, boards of education, independent school systems, community improvement districts, and other interested governmental entities previously served in connection with the Fulton County temporary-collection proceeding, by U.S. Mail and electronic mail at their addresses of record. The Honorable David Burge Commissioner of Revenue Georgia Department of Revenue 2595 Century Parkway NE Atlanta, Georgia 30345 revenue.

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2026 TAX DIGEST FOR THE CITY OF ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA (CONTINUED) commissioner@dor.ga.gov Marquetta J. Bryan City of Atlanta Department of Law 55 Trinity Avenue, Suite 5000 Atlanta, GA 30303 mbryan@atlantaga.gov Angela Couch City of Johns Creek Carothers & Mitchell, LLC 1809 Buford Highway Buford, GA 30518 Angela.couch@carmitch.com Richard P. Lindsey Lindsey & Lacy, PC City of Chattahoochee Hills, GA 2002 Commerce Drive, Suite 300 Peachtree City, GA 30269 Rick@llptc.com Brandon Lowell Bowen Jenkins & Bowen PC City of Mountain Park, GA 15 South Public Square Cartersville, GA 30120 bbowen@jbwpc.com L’Erin B. Wiggins Barnes Law LLC City of Palmetto 1588 Myrtle Lane Atlanta, GA 30349 lerin@lfbarneslaw.com Daniel W. Lee City of Sandy Springs FREEMAN, MATHIS & GARY, LLP 100 Galleria Parkway, Suite 1600 Atlanta, Georgia 30339 dlee@fmglaw.com cityattorney@sandyspringsga.gov Sara D.E. Kelly City of South Fulton 5440 Fulton Industrial Blvd South Fulton, GA 30336 sara. kelly@cityofsouthfultonga.gov J. Lynn Rainey Counsel for various Fulton County Community Improvement Districts Rainey & Phillips 358 Roswell Street, Suite 1130 Marietta, GA 30060 LRainey@pwrlaw.com Alexandra Apple Downtown Atlanta Community Improvement District Troutman Pepper Locke LLP 600 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 3000 Atlanta, GA 30308-2216 allie.apple@troutman.com Nina Gupta Suzann Wilcox Cheryl Shaw Atlanta Public Schools & Fulton County Schools Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein 1075 Peachtree Street, NE Suite 1500 Atlanta, GA 30309 ninagupta@parkerpoe.com suzannwilcox@parkerpoe.com cherylshaw@ parkerpoe.com Dennis Davenport McNally, Fox, Grant & Davenport 100 Habersham Drive Fayetteville, GA 30214 dadaven@bellsouth.net Respectfully submitted this 31st day of August, 2026. JARRARD & DAVIS, LLP /s/Ken Jarrard Ken Jarrard Georgia Bar No. 389550 John R. Bampfield Georgia Bar No. 341765 Molly Esswein Georgia Bar No. 912457 Attorneys for Alpharetta and Milton 222 Webb Street Cumming, Georgia 30040 678-455-7150 (telephone) kjarrard@jarrard-davis. com rbampfield@jarrard-davis.com messwein@jarrard-davis.com CITY OF ROSWELL CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE /s/Joe Cusack David Davidson Georgia Bar No. 206527 Joseph M. Cusack Georgia Bar No. 492674 Attorneys for City of Roswell 38 Hill Street Roswell, GA 30075 Phone: (770) 594-6185 ddavidson@roswellgov. com jcusack@roswellgov.com

Escape: Continued from Page 6 just see this brownish, gray dust just take over the whole road.” He thought the north tower, the first of the Twin Towers struck, had fallen — but it was the south tower, his workplace, that had collapsed. “Little did I know that if I had stayed there another 20 minutes, I’d be dead,” Yorio said. The south tower had burned for 56 minutes before falling. The north tower collapsed about 30 minutes later. Three other buildings fell, too, and other structures, streets and infrastructure were in disarray. The attacks, carried out by the terror group al-Qaida, resulted in 2,606 deaths at the World Trade Center complex and surrounding sites. Overall, 2,996 people — representing more than 90 countries — died during

Lacrosse: Continued from Page 1 Only one college player is going to the Olympics, with the rest being professionals, but all the buzz in the media is making the Brogden Cup even more special this year. West Forsyth midfielder Luca Diehl is returning to the national team for the Brogden Cup after taking part in the U17 combine last year. As a member of the class of 2028, recruiting opened Sept. 1 at noon for coaches to contact her. Diehl is one of two five-star juniors on the Wolverines, and she could be shaping up to be the second Wolverine in three years to sign to play for Maryland. Two-time state champion with West Forsyth Avery Grace Jones is a

the attacks, which also included a plane striking the Pentagon and another hijacked plane, nearly recaptured by its passengers, crashing into a rural Pennsylvania field. The attacks would, in many ways, alter the course of world history, with the U.S. and its allies starting a global “war on terror,” which would eventually encompass military action in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya. In 2011, U.S. military special operations forces killed the leader of alQaida and organizer of 9/11, Osama bin Laden. They would also change the trajectory of Yorio’s life. In the weeks and months after, he grieved. On the 25th anniversary of the event, he still does. The weeks after Yorio returned to work just a few days after the attacks, working from a space in the Rockefeller Center complex. As a reinsurer, he was busier than ever while handling claims related to 9/11. freshman Terrapin this year. Another athlete from the Eagle Stix club program, Wesleyan’s Savannah Higgins, will be playing in the Brogden Cup on the U19 battalion. Higgins is a senior committed to the University of Michigan. She is the only area player to make the U19 team, men’s or women’s, and is one of just two women from outside of the Northeast. Eagle Stix director Tim Godby is no stranger to sending players to top Division I programs or to international stages. “We’ve got girls from our program going to some of the best programs in the country in college every year,” Godby said. “It’s just great to see success that the girls have had [and for them] to have the chance to play at the next level in college and now at the USA level. It’s just pretty incredible to see girls from here, which is one of the nontraditional areas for

“That’s all we were dealing with,” Yorio said. “And then, of course, you’d … be getting notices every day of someone’s remains being found and a service. We were constantly grieving.” He spoke to a psychiatrist to confront a haunting memory from that day. He saw two people fall to their deaths from the north tower before he evacuated from the south tower. At the sight of the first fall, he turned away to avoid seeing someone die. The second time, he watched the person fall. Yorio couldn’t understand why he watched such a terrible sight. The psychiatrist’s answer to this still makes him emotional a quarter-century later. “She said, ‘Well, as human beings, we don’t want people to die alone,’” Yorio recalled, tears filling his eyes. Still with him The events of the day are “always there,” Yorio said. Talking openly about them is still difficult. His company merged with another firm

in 2009, and he moved to Dunwoody. He said his chest still tightens in a crowded stairwell. Yorio has a pamphlet from the memorial service that he attended for colleagues 17 days after the attacks. He also has a brochure, made on 9/11’s first anniversary, containing the names of more than 300 colleagues lost on that day. He said it’s still hard to comprehend what happened and why it happened. He does, however, remember what helped him stay alive, even as burning building components fell around him. “We survived that day by being united,” Yorio said, remembering his colleagues who helped him escape the doomed building and the strangers that helped him get home. “We were united, and I think that was important.” He said that, on the 25th anniversary, he’ll be thinking about the victims. “I think about the poor people that just had no chance,” Yorio said. “And I think I’m just very fortunate to be here. And, you know, you just do the best you can.”

lacrosse, producing talent every year.” Milton boys’ lacrosse is sending two players to the world stage. Cooper Schindler put up eight goals against a nationally ranked Roswell squad in the state championship, and the coaches at Team USA took notice ahead of the Brogden Cup. He is one of only two players on the U17 team who are from south of Maryland. Midfielder and faceoff specialist Andreas Roux will be joining the South African national team. Team USA has an automatic bid to the Olympics as the hosts, and the remaining five spots are up for grabs. Four of those teams will be determined next year at the 2027 World Sixes Championships. The 2026 African Sixes Lacrosse Championships will be hosted by South Africa in Johannesburg Dec. 1-4, where both men and women will play to decide which team will move on to the 2027 World Sixes

Championships. Africa currently has 15 countries that are members of World Lacrosse, up 375% from when they joined Ghana, Kenya and Uganda in 2021 as the only members from the African continent. According to World Lacrosse documents on the Olympic qualification system, each continent is guaranteed one team in the Olympics, so the stakes couldn’t be higher come December. Milton boys’ head coach Tom Dell shared his pride upon finding out that two of his players would be representing their countries. “It’s huge for our program and for these young men,” he said. “It’s a cool thing [for our players to be] highlighted.” Milton High and Eagle Stix lacrosse continue to cement themselves as a nontraditional lacrosse area that can no longer be ignored.

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NOTICE OF MEETINGS AND PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR AMENDMENTS TO THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE FOR THE CITY OF MILTON RZ26-05 – Text Amendments to the Unified Development Code regarding AG-1 lots and Lot Development Standards to the following: Article 2 General Provisions; Article 3 Agricultural Districts; Article 6 Special Purpose Districts; Article 8 Use Provisions (as it relates to setbacks for private swimming pools); Article 9 Site Development; Article 10 Streets and Improvements; Article 11 Environment; Article 12 Administration; and Article 13 Definitions. These amendments include deferred portions of RZ26-03. The above item will be considered at the following meetings and public hearings: Special Called Planning Commission Public Hearing Wednesday, October 14, 2026, at 6:00 pm Mayor and City Council Public Hearing Monday, November 16, 2026, at 6:00 pm Location: Milton City Hall – Council Chambers 2006 Heritage Walk, Milton, GA 30004 678-242-2540 City of Milton Notice of Meetings and Public Hearings for a Use Permit Case #U26-01 Location: 631 N. Main Street, Suite 207 Current Zoning : T5 – Deerfield Form Based Code Applicant: Ragin & Associates, Juan Ragin Request: A Use Permit to allow an Event Facility (Sec. 8.5.6.B of the UDC) within a 1,625 square feet tenant space, in an existing two-story 38,000 square foot commercial building, to accommodate a maximum of 90 attendees. The above item will be considered at the following meetings/public hearings: Special Called Planning Commission Public Hearing Wednesday, October 14, 2026, at 6:00 pm Mayor and City Council Public Hearing Monday, November 16, 2026, at 6:00 pm Location: Milton City Hall – Council Chambers 2006 Heritage Walk, Milton, GA 30004 678-242-2540

CITY OF MILTON PUBLIC NOTICE The Mayor and Council of the City of Milton wish to notify the public of the upcoming meetings pertaining to the FY 2027 proposed Annual Operating and Capital Budget: 1. Public Hearing: A public hearing will be held at the regularly scheduled council meeting on September 9, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. for the purpose of receiving comments on the proposed budget. 2. Public Hearing: A second public hearing will be held at the regularly scheduled council meeting on September 21, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. for the purpose of receiving comments on the proposed budget. 3. Budget Adoption: The FY 2027 budget will be considered for adoption by the Mayor and Council after the public hearing at the regularly scheduled council meeting on September 21, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. These meetings will be held at Milton City Hall, 2006 Heritage Walk, Milton, GA 30004. The proposed budget will be available for review upon request at City Hall from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday or on the City’s website at www. miltonga.gov the Thursday prior to the first public hearing .

Invitation to Bid Milton City Park & Preserve Improvements ITB NUMBER 26-PW10 Bid Due Date: September 24, 2026, by 2:00PM Local Time Electronic submission via: https://www.miltonga.gov/government/finance/bidsrfps Bid submissions will be publicly announced via a virtual bid opening at approximately 2:30 PM at the City of Milton City Hall located at 2006 Heritage Walk, Milton, GA 30004. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids. If the contract is awarded, it will be awarded to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder whose bid meets the requirements and criteria set forth in the invitation for bids. The City of Milton is requesting bids from qualified parties to provide construction services related to construction of an asphalt parking lot, wall construction, tennis court construction, playground construction, grading, drainage, landscaping and lighting installation at the Milton City Park & Preserve, located at 1785 Dinsmore Rd, Milton, Georgia 30004. The plans and specifications can be found in the solicitation of bids. posted on the websites below. A bid bond of 5% is required when submitting bid response. This Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) project is partially funded by grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior-National Parks Service. The awarded contractor must comply with all federal requirements detailed in the solicitation document. All qualified bids will receive consideration without regard to age, handicap, religion, creed or belief, political affiliation, race, color, sex, or national origin. The request for electronic bids for ITB 26-PW10, Milton City Park & Preserve Improvements will be posted on the following websites the week of August 27, 2026: https://www.miltonga.gov/government/finance/bids-rfps and https://ssl.doas.state.ga.us/gpr/

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Crabapple: Continued from Page 1 At the back end of Crabapple Market is a market for kids to sell items of their own. Other children can enjoy the kids zone, where they can ride attractions and play games. One of the community’s signature events, Crabapple Fest is free and open to all, including pets. Free parking is available at: • Milton Community Church, 12760 Birmingham Highway. • Crabapple Crossing Elementary School, 12775 Birmingham Highway. • Northwestern Middle School, 12805 Birmingham Highway. • Milton High School, 13025 Birmingham Highway. A shuttle will pick up and drop off attendees parked in those lots. Handicap parking will also be available at the Crabapple Government Center, 12624 Broadwell Road. Starting at 10 a.m. on Oct. 2, Crabapple Road will close between Mayfield Road and the Heritage Walk and Crabapple Chase Drive roundabout. It should reopen around 10 p.m. on Oct. 3.

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